Articles

Below are articles I have written on many topics of engineering management. They are taken from talks I have given during formal training, strategic meetings, or policy memos. They are mostly methods of wringing some sense out of what seems like total chaos sometimes.

If you would like to directly incorporate material from these articles into work you are performing , please contact me first for permission.

Program/Project Management

1. Beating a Schedule and Budget - Some Practical Techniques

2. Earned Value - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

3. How Many Prototypes Do We Need?

4. How to Avoid Disaster

5. How to Launch a Product

6. How to Plan Integration Based on Component Maturities

7. How to Use Requirements to Improve Schedule Performance

8. PMBoK Methods in MS Project Format

9. Political Systems in Engineering

10. Priorities - How to Determine and Execute to Them

11. Reviews - Types and Uses

12. Roles and Responsibilities of Technical Management

13. Rules for Project Engineering

14. Starting a Program

15. The Dark Side of Project Management

16. The Paradox of the Reserve

17. Three Ways of Leading an Engineering Project: A Case Study

18. Very Lean Engineering/Manufacturing Company Example

Engineering

1. Design Theory for Engineers

2. Four Languages of Engineering

3. Power Calculations for the Determination of Component Operating Temperatures

4. Powering an Assembly for the First Time

5. Definition and Purpose of Prototypes, Breadboards, and Other Non Production Assets

6. Requirements Management Basics

7. What is System Engineering?

8. Why Do A Requirements Document?

9. Why Do We Need That Stupid Sign Off Process?

Functional Management

1. Estimating Engineering Effort - Several Methods

2. Interview Questions